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  • France : students clash with riot police
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Students clash with riot police protesting first job contract
    Dominique de Villepin showed no signs of bending to student and opposition demands that he abandon a hotly contested measure to combat youth unemployment.
    Hundreds of students clashed with riot police near the Sorbonne University in Paris on Tuesday. The student protests were presenting French President Jacques Chirac’s supposed preferred successor with one of his sternest tests yet in his nine-month tenure as prime minister. (…)

  • Robert Fisk: Who Benefits from a Civil War in Iraq
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lateline Video: Robert Fisk
    TONY JONES: Well, Robert Fisk is one of the most experienced observers of the Middle East and in his latest book, ’The Great War for Civilisation - the Conquest of the Middle East’, he draws on almost 30 years of reporting from his base in Lebanon to look at the forces which have shaped current events and conflicts Robert Fisk, thanks for being there.
    ROBERT FISK, WRITER & JOURNALIST: You’re welcome.
    TONY JONES: Now, unless you’ve changed your position (…)

  • In the name of equality and freedom
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    of RUMINA SETHI
    Feminist critique of the march of globalisation and the resultant shrinking of democratic possibilities
    AGAINST EMPIRE - Feminisms, Racism, and the West: Zillah Eisenstein; Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women, K-36, Hauz Khas Enclave, Ground Floor, New Delhi-110016. Rs. 350.
    This book marks a significant attempt to conflate activism among women and the hegemonic processes of globalisation. Zillah Eisenstein’s particular attack is on the masculinist U.S. (…)

  • AMERICA’S RELUCTANT HOLIDAY
    23 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PRAVDA.Ru
    January 23, 1983 marked a pivotal point in an otherwise mundane life. On that date, my first article entitled, “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Should Be a National Holiday” was published, thus beginning a writing career that culminated with me being named the Legal Editor of the English language edition of PRAVDA.Ru
    After that eventful day, I spent hours reading books and researching articles about other lesser known, but equally (…)

  • Jazz Great Ray Barretto Passes At Age 76
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Grammy-winning Latin jazz percussionist Ray Barretto who had recently undergone heart surgery died today.
    He was 76 years old.
    George Rivera, a friend who has been serving as a spokesman, said Barretto died at 5 a.m. with his wife and two sons by his bedside at the Hackensack University Medical Center.
    Barretto had undergone heart bypass surgery in January and was operated on again two weeks later after an artery burst.
    Barretto was known for integrating the conga drum into jazz. (…)

  • NEWS JUNKIE
    16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In NEWS JUNKIE, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history.
    Leopold broke key stories about the California energy crisis and Enron Corporation’s infamous phony trading floor as a reporter for the Dow Jones Newswire. While (…)

  • How We Can Save America: A Practical Solution
    16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    This is a letter to all of those Americans that know what is really happening in America.
    We now know that Bush is openly disregarding the Constitution. We know that Congress is doing nothing about it, maybe they’ll appoint another ’bi-partisan’ commission to ’investigate’.
    This is not acceptable.
    All of those elected officials swore to Uphold and Defend the Constitution. They have collectively failed, whether due to bribes, blackmail, incompetence, collusion, etc we (…)

  • The photos America doesn’t want seen
    15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Moore
    MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
    Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union.
    Although a US judge last year granted the union access to the photographs following a freedom-of-information request, the US (…)

  • Left all atwitter over Vice President’s itchy trigger finger
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Of course, most of you already know I’ve never been the Vice President’s biggest fan. I’ve often confused him with Lon Cheney, and yes, I’ve had him in my sights before...er, so to speak. But I find it unconscionable that the left wing punditocracy is having such unearned fun over Cheney’s unfortunate hunting accident. I mean who is the victim here? The Vice President, who was deprived of the chance to become a marksman through proper training in Vietnam just (…)

  • Debating Impeachment Among Democrats
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    Can you even imagine Republicans, even if they were in a minority in Congress, debating whether or not to call for the impeachment of a Democratic president known and documented as guilty of a wide range of high crimes and misdemeanors? In particular, if you can imagine that, can you imagine the Republicans who opposed impeachment arguing that they were doing so for strategic political reasons?
    This is hard to imagine, because the Republicans won a majority in Congress (…)